Nambla will provide FREE Daycare for the children of parents against Home-Schooling.
Bump for reading tonight!
“Vocabulary: The word ‘austerity’ will be heard a lot.”
At least we don’t have to hear ‘gravitas’ all the time anymore, LOL!
I predict that while we Ants work hard, the Grasshoppers will continue to fiddle...and yet we Ants will STILL be expected to bail out the Grasshoppers. Grrrr! But THIS time, I think the Ants will rise up, kill the Grasshoppers, smother them in chocolate and call it ‘Lunch’! :)
It seems most of the NR writers think Palin is going to tank and can’t be a serious candidate. There’s a freaking surprise.
1,000 servicemembers will try to avoid deployment to Afghanistan for openly stating they’re gay...
...and fail...
...giving them yet something ELSE to be PO’d about.
I predict the temperatures will warm up towards the summer months and then cool off towards the end of the year.
112% of all predictions will be mindless, straight-line extrapolations. I know this because last year 92% were and the previous year 72% were.
Re: Derbyshire’s “Math” prediction:
“What is an anagram of “Banach-Tarski”?
Obviously: “Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski”
A famous rock star will die next year. Also, an obscure Hollywood actor. U.S. Congress will have a vote of no-confidence for the Obama Administration. The Prime Minister and his Cabinet will resign. Oh, wait, never mind, we have a perfect Constitution.
A politician despised by Conservatives will die. Prayers-up and accolades will fill the FR pages. “He was a good man.”
Mormon vs Protestant vs Catholic urinating matches will continue on FR.
Threads of outrage about teachers having sex with students will dominate.
Apple vs Microsoft vs Google religious wars go on unabated.
The prophecy that breaks my heart is that Tavis Smiley’s C-Span show,”State of the Black Union”, will go.
I’ll be lost without it.
:-)
For later
1) Stuxnet will continue to quietly damage Iran. Along with a handful of key assassinations of key military and scientific staff continuing in 2011, the Iranian government will further crack down internally.
2) This move, coupled with the end of price-subsidies earlier this year, will cause the re-emergence of the popular uprisings Iran saw in 2009. And a figurehead for the movement will emerge with international recognition.
3) Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will be found dead of an "overdose". Shortly after announcing he has millions of files on Chinese and/or Russian manipulation of international exchange markets that he will go public with.
3) Kim Jong-Il of North Korea will pass away. Rather anti-climatically, the heir will announce the willingness for further discussions around reforms and possible openness of North Korea. He will be spotted at lavish parties at Cannes, and will seek to emulate the stardom of Gorbachev, but with more of a focus on getting to meet "hot" western starlets.
4)The "sports bubble" of the NFL/NBA/NHL etc will continue to deflate. As families have less money to spend on such events as live entertainment, coupled with a lockout, TV ratings plummet and an NFL season is reduced to 6 games (all inter-divisional) and playoffs. The NBA announces the reduction of 2 teams, and the NHL announces the reduction of 2 teams, plus the move of a franchise back to Quebec.
Player salaries in all major sports begin to decline, and TV viewership recovers, while ticket sales do not for possibly 5+ years.
5) Many 99'er's/baby-boomers who have not been gainfully employed in 2 years will begin to form modest, yet fairly comfortable communities (initially) based around communal sharing of resources. The MSM, rather than pointing to this as a sign of continued economic malaise by the Obama administration, will cast this in a light of "American ingenuity" and harken back to the romanticized hippie communes of the late 60's. All the while continuing to beat the drum on the need for more regulation of all markets in every aspect.